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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rowe do for the men?
(a) He gives them gifts.
(b) He helps them to escape.
(c) He gives them what valuables he still possesses.
(d) He cooks the final meal for them all.

2. Rowe knows that there might come a point at which he is released but hates the thought of what?
(a) Where his captors will release him.
(b) Being left alone.
(c) Waiting until then.
(d) Allowing his captors to hold that power over him.

3. How do many of the Vietnamese people feel about Rowe?
(a) Curious.
(b) Fearful.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Angry.

4. When they learn that some Vietcong prisoners are being tried in Saigon, Rowe prays they will be sentenced to what?
(a) Death.
(b) Prison.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) Community service.

5. How does Rowe feel at this time?
(a) Very angry.
(b) Very afraid.
(c) Very excited.
(d) Very nervous.

6. Using their own slang, what does Rowe ask the men to do?
(a) Help him to escape.
(b) Come back for him.
(c) Let his parents know that he is alive.
(d) Send a unit in to save him.

7. What is Rowe told to expect?
(a) Nothing from the natives.
(b) Animosity from the natives.
(c) Help from the natives.
(d) Fear from the natives.

8. What does Rowe say that the guards refuse to accept?
(a) The men are all willing to die for their country.
(b) The men will not give in to the Vietcong's requests.
(c) Medicine was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners healthy.
(d) Adequate food was all that was necessary to keep the prisoners relatively healthy.

9. What is Rowe told he can buy with the money he earns from his excess fish?
(a) Sugar and salt.
(b) Sugar and pepper.
(c) Garlic and pepper.
(d) Sugar and tea.

10. Rowe is told that the other three are no longer considered prisoners and that he is not to do what?
(a) Write to them.
(b) Talk to them.
(c) Help them.
(d) Trust them.

11. How are the next nights a nightmare of pain?
(a) He receives thousands of mosquito bites.
(b) He is taunted by the Vietcong soldiers.
(c) He has large welts all over his body from the whip.
(d) He is dying from starvation.

12. What is Rowe given all the way to their first destination?
(a) Medical care.
(b) Food.
(c) Water.
(d) Rest.

13. When Rowe is some distance from camp, he encounters whom?
(a) His own guards.
(b) The enemy.
(c) Vietnamese civilians.
(d) The U.S. Army.

14. What is Rowe given?
(a) Two baby hawks.
(b) Two baby pigeons.
(c) Two baby eagles.
(d) Two baby leopards.

15. Rowe continues to know that he could be released if he does what?
(a) Gives the Vietcong money.
(b) Gives the location of Tan Phu.
(c) Says what he is being told to say.
(d) Blackmails the Vietcong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Rowe been repeatedly told regarding the National Liberation Front?

2. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?

3. What lies did Rowe tell upon his capture?

4. What does Rowe's captor do now that he believes Rowe?

5. What does Rowe tell the enemy?

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